Needs New Batteries

Jamie's out of town and we were trying to video chat before Kaylee went to bed, but the program we were trying to use wasn't working for us tonight. Kaylee said, "not working very well. Needs new batteries." Back story: she has a Spider-Man toy that sings songs and dances when you push the buttons on his feet. A couple months ago, Spider-Man wasn't working right, we said it probably needed new batteries, but found that if we turned it over and hit it on the feet (2 batteries in each foot) it would work again for a little while. So we did the hitting it on the feet thing for a while until the batteries completely died on us, then we replaced them. So since then, Kaylee thinks anything that doesn't work right needs batteries. Even her sippy cups. She finished her milk one day, then turned it over and hit it on the bottom while saying, "needs new batteries." So if you come over and she turns a Lego over and hits it because she can't get it to stack right, that's what she's doing. Trying to get it to work again. :)

Two Topknots

Yesterday Kaylee wanted two topknots, and actually has enough hair for it! She wanted me to take a picture of her with them, so I did. A bit later she was playing "sick" - she fake coughs, says, "I'm sick," and has me wrap her in a blanket and even had me get a teething ring from the freezer yesterday, too. I asked if she wanted a picture of her being sick and she said yes. She usually only wants to let me take pictures of her if she's standing on top of her box of blocks (the purple box), so that's why she's up there in these photos.


As you can see, she was a great help to me in unpacking and sorting through the Pampered Chef show order that arrived yesterday. Luckily it arrived shortly before naptime and I was able to get the sorting done while she slept. Her pre-nap help was appreciated, nonetheless, since she's so cute.

Flashlight

Kaylee has a Dora book where they use a flashlight to help them see in the dark. Jamie just read it to her and then went to get a real flashlight to show her how it works. He turned out the overhead light in the family room and they found dark spots (under the entertainment center, for one) to look at and Kaylee enjoyed shining it all over the ceiling, TV, etc. They just went into the basement with the stair light turned out to go down there in the dark with just the flashlight for light. It's very cute to hear the excitement in her voice about using a flashlight!

Another present!

Kaylee got a surprise present last night in the mail, all the way from her cousin Elena (okay really Elena's Mommy Diedre ;) ) in California! It arrived just as we were about to sit down for dinner, so Jamie opened it up as soon as we were done, but I had to wipe down Kaylee before she could get at it. The present was in purple gift wrap and I told Kaylee it was from Elena, and she was itching to get at it for the entire 2 minutes (if that) it took to clean her up, saying, "Enena big purple present!" over and over. She finally got to tear into it and that she did! All the practice at Christmas has made her a pro and I think she was into the box within about 30 seconds. It's a super cute yellow bee dress! Kaylee wanted to put it on right away, over her clothes. She was wearing a white turtleneck yesterday, and until it warms up, that's how she'll be wearing it! (Maybe not also with brown pants, though...) Perfect size, too - good for now over the shirt and should be great all summer and into fall, too! Here are the photos of her modeling it. Thanks, California Caesars!! :)



PS - you like her "wings"??? She's auditioning for the role of Bozo in a kiddie production. ;) This dry air and static craziness make her fine hair stick out; it gets crazier as the day goes on and this was just before bed. Speaking of static, every time she touches someone/something and gets shocked she says, "another shock!" Maybe that's what does it to her hair - all the little shocks throughout the day build up and release through her scalp!

"Look, Mommy!"

Yesterday Kaylee started saying, "look, Mommy! Look, Mommy!" Before then she'd usually just repeat Mommy over and over, or say look over and over until I responded, but she didn't say it with the same inflection. She's been talking in up to 5-6 word sentences for a couple months now (her sentences being things like "no daddy go work right now" or "shadow, be nice to me"), but I just thought the way she ran up to show me a crayon and said, "look, Mommy" was very cute. I guess she knew it, as she took the crayon back to the table and repeated it with about 5 other crayons, one at a time. :)

Snow

Wednesday afternoon we went to my grandparents' house and Kaylee and PawPaw spent quite a while jumping off the fireplace ledge. As you can see, there's a fire going, but she knew not to go near it. She'd say "fire hot hot hot!" and kept her distance (plus we were watching her of course!!). She also thought it was funny to wear Memaw's earmuffs and a Mickey sticker on her nose. She's heard too much Rudolph lately - she was calling it her "shiny nose."


Photos of Kaylee out in the snow (not much on the ground yet, but flurries in the air). She enjoyed opening her mouth and sticking out her tongue to try to catch and eat the snow. She got tired of her hat and hood and pulled them off for a while before we went in; you can see some of the flurries in her hair. The blue rain boots are the ones she got from Erin early this week - just in time for snow!!


In other news, her last canine tooth (bottom left) finally broke through on Friday. The 4 canines aren't completely in yet, but she now has 16 teeth and is just waiting on her 2nd year molars! Luckily she's been the easiest teether I've heard of! We didn't know she was teething until her first ones had nearly broken through (at 7.5ish months), and that was just from seeing the gums stretched out and a bit white. And lately she's been telling us she needs Orajel and has been chewing on her fingers and teething toy, but otherwise no complaints - I'd heard horror stories, so I'm very relieved not to have dealt with anything major!

"Gloves" & Boots

Kaylee picked out blue socks to wear this morning, but saw her "Ryker socks" (she got them at her cousin Ryker's birthday party in September, hence the name) and wanted to wear them to. As I was already putting the blue ones on her feet, she played with the Ryker socks for a bit before deciding it would be funny to wear them on her hands. She put them both on by herself and called them her "Ryker socks gubs" - FYI: gubs=gloves. She thought it was hilarious that she had socks on her hands and was eating (dry) Cheerios with them on and playing with various things for a while.

The boots are new hand-me-downs from a friend. She had a playdate with Erin (and her big sis Ellie) for a couple hours yesterday afternoon while I took Shadow to the vet and she apparently loved the boots so much while she was over that they became hers. (Ellie and Erin had just gotten new ones.) She wore them off and on all day and can pretty much put them on by herself, but sometimes would get hung up trying and become super frustrated and kick them off while screaming. Yikes. Anyway, the boots might come in handy soon as it seems we might get a little snow sometime in the next week or two, but the forecast keeps changing (imagine that!!) so who knows.

Honey!

Last night Jamie said goodnight to Kaylee, he left the room and I was about to put her in bed, but she wanted to "say night-night Daddy" again. So we went in the hallway and I told her to call Daddy. She said, "Honey!" (That's what I call him.) That made me laugh and I said, "Honey? Call Daddy." So she said, while laughing, "HONEY!" Jamie walked up and we were all laughing and she wouldn't call him Daddy, just Honey, and said it over and over while laughing hysterically. She finally said, "I love you, Honey. Night-night." She continued to laugh about it while I put her in bed, and I wondered if she'd stay up laughing for a while, but after I left her room I didn't hear anything from her the rest of the night.

This morning Jamie got up with her and I slept in, when I came downstairs she said hi to me, then looked over at Jamie, looked back at me with a big smile and said, "Honey!" Then she ran over to Jamie saying, "hi, Honey! Hi, Honey!" and has now called him Honey for the past couple hours. Hmm, wonder if he'll be "Daddy" again soon??